St. Landry democrat., 1887-02-12

ST. LANDRY DEMOCRAT.
OPELOUsAS. .. LOUISIANA
NEWS IN BRIEF.
COMPLIED from Various Sources.
THE sanitary condition of Buenos Avres
is now reported good. cholera having dis
appeared from Cordova.
JOHN d. KEENAN,, a son of ex-senator
Herman, of New York, is talked Of for a
place on the Interstate Commerce Com
mission.
Hon GEORGE H. PENDLETON- United
States Minister 10 Germany, was among
the passengers on the steamer Saale from
Bremen, which arrived ut New York on
the Both.
DAKOTA and Montana were visited on
the 29th by the worst blizzard known for
years. Trains in every direction were
either abandoned or were stuck fast in
the snow
IN the case of May Foster, on tlial at
Des Moines, Ia. for the murder of her
roommate, Jessie Carter. nearly year
ago. the jury returned a verdict OF not
guilty on the 10Th.
The Berlin correspondent OF the London
Daily Nery says he hears that the whole
German army is to be called out in sec
lions of 1900 men to be drilled IN the use
of the repeating rife.
IT is announced at Ottawa, Ont. that
British war ships are to be sent to Cana
dian waters in the spring to aid the
Canadian authorities in enforcing the
fisheries regulations.
.'HE Chinese Minister at Washington
celebrated his birthday on the night of the
2Sth by pleasant party of one hundred
and fifty guests at the legation residence.
The invitations were verbal.
"BoBBY'' ADAMS, the Minneapolis post
Office rObber, was sentenced at Chicago
to five years in the penitentiary on the
31st by Judge Blodgett, who also fined
him 500 and one-sixth the cost of his trial.
THE jury in the case of eX-Alderman
O'Neil, in New York, returned verdict
of guilty on the night of the lst. Notion
Viii be made for a new trial. Meanwhile
O'Neil has been consigned to the Tombs
to await sentence.
THE jury in the case of the wife of Prof.
Emmons, on tslal in Washington as to her
sanity, decided on the s9th that the lady is
sane enough TO take care of herself, and
that the professor can not have her con-
fined in an asylum.
ARCHBISHOP ELDER Of Cincinnati au-
thorizes the statement that the Catholic
church is in no way responsible for the
organization of theatrical company to
gather money to aid in paying the Purcell
debt, nor does he in any ma nner sanction
any such scheme.
AT fourteen minutes PAST eight O'Clock
on the night of the 31st the little town of
Wellborn, Tex, was shaken twice by
slight earthquake shocks, causing win
dows to rattle and houses to tremble
felt in that section.
ALTHOUGH it was publicly announced
that Mrs. Cleveland would not receive on
the 1st, the word was passed around to
her friends that she would be s'at home''
to those who sent in their cards, and she
had quito reception, attended only by
personal acquaintance.
THE following is a list of Senators who
have announced their intention of speak
ing On the 9th in eulogy of Senator
Logan: Edmunds, Evarts, Allison, Mand-
erson, Frye, Plumb, Spooner, Hawley,
Cullom, Stamford, Morgan, Cockrell,
Hampton, Ransom and Blackburn.
CONCERNING the health of Congressman
Cox, of New York, Mrs. Cox, in note,
says: $50 many friends write that they
are watching the papers for further news
as to his illness, will you please say that
he continues to improve, though very
slowly. He is quite weak and neither sees
nor hears his NALL
FULLY $3.50 persons attended the serv-
ices commemorative of General John A.
Logan at Grand Army Hall, Williams burg,
N. Y, on the evening of the 3Gth. The serv-
ices were held under the auspices of
Mansfield Post, No. 81, G. a. R. The hall
was appropriately decorated and the serv-
ices were impressive.
THE startling discovery was made on the
1st that the night clerk at the Gayoso
Hotel, at Memphis, Tenn, a young man
named Charles Talbot, aged twenty one
years, had robbed the hotel Office of $3.50
in cash, and that he had also taken $35, 600
worth of diamonds belonging to Miss
Fanny Davenport, the actress.
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